Description: This 1978 session focused on Individual Life Products in the Employee Market. Topics included: 1. What is the current status of the Section 79 market. 2. The Retired Life Reserve concept. 3. Trends in Deferred Compensation products. 4. Recent activity in the Key Person and Split Dollar markets.

Description: In this paper, the calculation of life insurance functions taking an HIV+ life into consideration is examined. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1989, Vol. 41.

Description: This discussion at a SOA 1967 Regional Meeting covers individual life and health insurance topics including individual health loss of time coverages, life underwriting, reinsurance, individual annuity retirement plans in Canada, market testing new products.

Description: This article discusses the changes occurring in the illustrations systems market.

Description: This article is a general discussion about earnings rates and toll charges and how to compute them.

Description: This article is a general discussion about prior correction procedures for failed life insurance contracts and the new IRS procedure for remediation.

Description: The management of the investments of an insurance enterprise has undergone a considerable evolution since the pioneering work of Redington in the mid 20th century. Best practices have evolved to incorporate ever more complex insurance liabilities, expanding investment asset classes and global market opportunities. Strategic asset allocation (SAA), liability driven investing, and other robust optimization approaches form the core of the professional management of insurance company investments.

Description: With many complex regulatory changes on the horizon as well as pressures to ensure model accuracy from auditors, regulatory requirements and new actuarial standards of practice, the importance of robust model validation is coming to the forefront of actuaries’ minds. What was previously a day-two task for many companies is becoming just as important as model development! In this session, you will hear from those that have been deeply involved in building model validation frameworks and tools in responses to regulatory changes GAAP Long Duration Targeted Improvements (“LDTI”) and Principles Based Reserves (“PBR”).

Description: This article is a summary of Darrell Laird's paper in T.A.S.A. 50, The Revenue of the Period of Account and Its Relation To Premiums, Valuation and Dividents. Mr. Laird saw 3 problems, 1 finding a comprehensive way to measure a life company's real performance, 2 displaying sale and administrative expenses revealingly to management and 3 distributing surplus equitably among holders of individual policies.